1 The Smalleys had five children, whose dates of birth have not been discovered: Eleanor, Phillips, Evelyn, Ida, and Emerson (Joseph J. Mathews, 173).

2 Dolby had “a stutter which leads him to become suddenly stately in the middle of a homely phrase and to give a queer intonation to his voice” (Howe, 139).

3 The photograph was almost certainly the one taken by Charles Watkins in September 1872 (see 5 Oct 72 to Fitzgibbon, n. 2). In mid-September a reporter for the South London Press mentioned having been “favoured” by Watkins with a copy of this portrait, which brought out “all the strong points in Mark’s appearance: his well-shaped head—from which the thick stubbly hair rises as he has shown it in one of his own caricatures—the keen, eagle eye peering out from shaggy brows, and the firm square jaw indicative of power and determination” (“London Lounger,” 14 Sept 72, 1). This photograph was also probably available for purchase by the public: on 1 November 1872 John Camden Hotten wrote Watkins to ask “your price per doz & per 100 to a poor but honest bookseller” of “Mark Twain’s photograph” (CU-MARK). (Hotten also asked, “If you have an autograph of Mark Twain I wish you wd send it to me by bearer. I will faithfully return it in the morning. I am a student of caligraphy.”) Clemens was also photographed by Rogers and Nelson, art photographers and portrait painters at 215 Regent Street, in 1873. Three poses are known to be extant from that sitting. Clemens inscribed a print of one for Stoddard, who used it to illustrate a 1908 article about Clemens in the Pacific Monthly (Stoddard 1908, 270). He inscribed another to Lilian Aldrich in March 1874 (MH-H). A surviving print of the third bears no inscription. All are reproduced in Photographs and Manuscript Facsimiles.

4 Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917) attended Eton and Cambridge; he then prepared for a career in the church, and the law. In 1863 he submitted an article to Punch and was invited to join the staff. (In 1880 he became the editor of that journal, serving for twenty-six years.) He was also active as a playwright, writing many successful comedies and burlesques. On 22 December Burnand began a series of London readings from “Happy Thoughts,” his popular comic series in Punch. The London Pall Mall Gazette described a November performance of a similar program in Brighton:

Burnand also published collections of his “Happy Thoughts” in 1868, 1871, and 1872, the last of which he illustrated himself (Griffiths, 135–36; BBA, s.v. “Burnand, Francis Cowley’; “Happy Thought Readings,” London Times, 16 Dec 73, 8).